What Political Issue Are You Most Passionate About?

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There’s a lot of noise out there. (You can say that again.)

There’s a LOT of noise out there. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Snapchat. Tik Tok, news aggregates, newspapers, shouting neighbors, ahhh!

How do you stay informed and connected, yet not inundated, desensitized, and overstimulated in this age? This month, we wanted to dig deep, but we zoomed out to 30,000 feet to look at the big picture and ask our community simply to state what’s heaviest on their minds, politically, as we near an election unlike many others.

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CARINA CUTLER, Kings Beach
Realtor, ski coach

I have to pick one?

Okay: Dealing with climate change, so we have a chance to face all the other issues mentioned.

JOHN BAYLESS, San Antonio, Texas
Editor (educational publishing)

Freedom.

 

JEREMY ANN ANDERSON, Truckee
Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist

Environmental health.

 

AMANDA MCGUIRE, Truckee
Server, terrain park maintenance, Squaw Alpine

My reproductive rights, my civil rights, and my f*@%ing human rights as a gay person.

 

JOSH ANDERSON, Olympic Valley
Skier-server-bartender, Squaw Alpine

The link between wealth inequality, political infidelity and ineffectuality, corruption, greed, and environmental destruction for temporal personal and corporate gain. Essentially the fact that we let corporations make choices about what we consume and how livable our planet is. I need breathable air more than an in-home drone security camera and a V8 truck.

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  • Becca Loux

    Becca Loux relocated to Truckee on a mission to tell stories that are fact-checked and data-driven without sacrificing the human element. She is an avid hiker, biker, skater, surfer, boarder, kayaker, sun-worshiper, and all other important "-ers" relating to the outdoors. Becca's wolfpack recently expanded to include a teenage husky named Koda.

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